Emmaus Gloucestershire are looking for volunteers to help in their shops by displaying goods for sale, rotating stock, cleaning/polishing goods on sale, serving customers, using the till, and assisting customers with their donations and purchases.

What are they looking for?

Volunteers who have an interest in shop work, with a friendly personality and confidence in dealing with members of the public in a busy retail environment.

Emmaus supports people to work their way out of homelessness, providing meaningful work in social enterprises as well as a stable home for as long as someone needs it. The first Emmaus community opened in the UK in 1992 and there are now 29, supporting more than 750 formerly homeless people.

In Gloucestershire there is a home and work for over 30 'companions', as residents are known, who work full-time refurbishing donated furniture and household goods, which are then sold in one of five community shops.